
Birthday:
07-23-1921
Deathday:
07-30-2002 (81 years)
Birthplace:
Sudan
Biography
Atef Salem is a famous Egyptian director, born in Sudan to Egyptian parents. He enriched Egyptian cinema with many notable films. Among his famous films are Mother of the Bride (1963) and its sequel, The Grandson (1975). He began his artistic career as an actor in the movie Magda (1943), then worked as an assistant director for several directors, then as a director.
He directed 32 films between 1954 and 2001. Many of his films were scripted by the novelist Naguib Mahfouz. His 1967 film Khan el Khalili was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
He directed 32 films between 1954 and 2001. Many of his films were scripted by the novelist Naguib Mahfouz. His 1967 film Khan el Khalili was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Majda
event1943
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The film's events revolve around Magda, a beautiful girl who is forced to marry a rich man, but she does not love him, so she decides to run away from him on the wedding night, and he decides to take revenge on her and her family.
Struggle on the Nile
Director
event1959 star_border 7.2
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Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat, the "Bride of the Nile," in order to buy a barge that will make their village elders more competitive in business and trade. But a ruthless business rival is determined to see that the men never reach Cairo. Matters become even more complicated when Nargis, a scheming carnival dancer, is discovered hiding out in the cargo hold of the "Bride of the Nile."
Barefoot on the Gold Bridge
Director
event1976 star_border 7.5
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Camelia loves acting, gets to know the director and producer Ahmed Sameh, who agrees with her to star in his new movie. Aziz, the influential man, approaches her, but she repels him. She agrees with Ahmed to marry, and Aziz threatens to kill him.
A Voice From The Past
Director
event1956 star_border 7
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Hamdi, a young boy meets his mother in a dream. She tells hims three things that are going to happen in the future.
And The Time passed
Director
event1975
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Madbouly works at Al-Basha mansion with his wife and two sons. Al-Basha has a playboy son named Mohsen who commits a murder and asks his father to find someone to take the fall instead of him. He negotiates with Madbouly to go to prison instead of Mohsen in exchange for money . Madbouly agrees and events escalate.
Beach of Secrets
Director
event1958 star_border 6
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"Alia" back to Port Said, to her brother's house to spend the day with him, Garret student University in Cairo, which does not have the world but her brother "adel" who works in the sea.
They Made Me a Criminal
Writer
event1954 star_border 7
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Sultan thought that his father's death will soften his uncle's heart and he will take good care of him. Contrary to Sultan's expectations, the uncle sent him to an orphanage. When he leaves the orphanage, Sultan fails to find an honest job, and he vows revenge.
ومضي قطار العمر
Director
event1975
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A remake of the Turkish film "The Father" 1971.
Where Is My Mind ?
Director
event1974 star_border 6.7
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Aida's marriage is tested by secrets and cultural clash. Starring Soad Hosny, Mahmoud Yassin and Rushdy Abaza.
We the Students
Director
event1959 star_border 6
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Directed by Atef Salem.
The Yemen Revolution
Director
event1966
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Directed by Atef Salem.
The Mother of the Bride
Director
event1963 star_border 6.6
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This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never ending demands of their seven mischievous children. When their eldest daughter, Ahlam, meets a dashing young man at a party, it's love at first sight and wedding plans must quickly be arranged. As preparations get underway, Zeinab and Hussein are soon overwhelmed by the elaborate and costly requests made by the groom's extravagant family. While tending to the needs of their other six children, Hussein and Zeinab must consider unconventional means to obtain the funds for a ceremony that the newlyweds will be proud of.
Rendezvous with a Stranger
Director
event1959
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A classic Egyptian film noir starring Omar Sharif who is trying to find out the mysterious circumstances under which his brother was killed. This gem also features the belly dancer Samia Gamal and features some of her famous exotic dancing tableaux.
Heaven's Justice
Assistant Director
event1948
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An honest employee finds himself in a tough situation when he is accused of killing his manager due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. His wife is forced to work at a nightclub to provide for their children.
Kwaml's House
Director
event1986
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Farida (Nadia al-Jundi), the owner of the house, decides to demolish the house and build a large residential tower. She does not pay any attention to the house's inhabitants, but her luck falls in love with one of the house's inhabitants. He takes responsibility for managing her new project and gives him the right to agency. From unique and revenge to home dwellers.
Fleeing from life
Director
event1964
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Dr. Kamal falls in love with Suhair, who works as a hostess in a nightclub. At the same time, Dr. Mahmoud also loves her. Mahmoud precedes his colleague Kamal in declaring his feelings for her and marrying her.
They Taught Me Love
Director
event1957
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Sami comes from the countryside to Cairo to join a girls' school. There, he admires his student Nawal, but he is ashamed to be honest with her about his feelings for her. At the same time, Mamdouh tries to make Nawal love him, whom he meets by chance, so he turns to his friend Sami to help him write a book. Love letters, creating a love triangle.
Gharam El Millionaire
Director
event1957
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The events revolve around the dancer Salwa, who is considered the first star of the performance troupe she works with. A rumor spreads about Salwa’s relationship with a well-known millionaire, and the troupe director seeks to take advantage of that rumor to achieve more profit, and events escalate.
College Girls
Director
event1971
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The lives of a group of girls who depart from the strict world of school to the open world of college
Miracle from heaven
Director
event1956 star_border 7
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A young employee prepares to travel to Alexandria to work as a singer in one of its clubs, but his friends take him to Ras El Bar, and in the summer resort he meets a young woman who made him stop traveling, as he caught a cold while trying to save her from drowning. She had pretended that she was about to drown, and a very fast love developed between them. And her uncle sees them.
A Day of My Life
Director
event1961 star_border 8.5
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An unexpected love affair quickly blossoms between aspiring down-on-his-luck reporter Salah (Abdel Halim Hafez) and the subject of his first newspaper scoop, a pretty young heiress (Zubaida Tharwat)who's soon to be forced into an arranged marriage.
Khan El-Khalili
Director
event1966
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Ahmed is forced to interrupt his studies in order to support his family and for his younger brother (Rushdi) to continue his studies. He moves his family to the Khan Al-Khalili neighborhood, meets the residents of the Khan, and gets to know more about the teacher, Nono, who lives his life up and down. Rushdie continues his studies despite the frivolous life of entertainment he lives, and Rushdie becomes the only thing that Ahmed has achieved in his life.
The Grandson
Director
event1975 star_border 6.2
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The film's events revolve around a family consisting of seven children, and the work discusses the problems of each son, such as Nabila, whose husband refuses to have children and threatens to separate her when he learns of her pregnancy, as well as the problems of university students between ambition and love. The film reviews the difficulties that parents face in bearing the burdens of their children.
Womens' Tailor
Director
event1969
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Saber Effendi works as a tailor for men, but his major problem is that he suffers from a great depression because of his lack of fashion and refuses to develop his ideas about fashion until his wife, Huda, who works in a Syrian magazine interested in fashion, suggests that he change his activity to become a tailor for women rather than men. Implementation plan.
Fatma, Marika & Rachel
Co-Director
event1949 star_border 7
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A drama directed by Helmy Rafla, featuring Nelly Mazloum.
Dawn
Director
event1955
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Amin is a railway station worker, his daughter Fajr is engaged to his friend's son. When Amin's friend the postman goes to visit him, his leg gets stuck at the railway, Amin becomes torn between saving his friend and sacrificing the passengers on the train.
Black Tiger
Director
event1984 star_border 6.9
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An Egyptian goes to Germany to work in a factory and become a boxing legend called black tiger.
The Scornful Man
Director
event1956
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When a young unemployed man is chased by creditors from all sides, a girl sympathizes with him. He decides to commit suicide by hanging himself but his attempt fails. However, he finds hidden money in the ceiling and becomes rich.
Toot Toot
Director
event1993 star_border 7
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A mentally challenged woman living through the help of neighboors,been taken advantage of and assaulted by a rich man then left for survival on her own away from people she knew.
Les Miserables
Director
event1978
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Based on Victor Hugo's novel, a poor man is sent to prison after stealing a loaf of bread. He escapes and becomes rich, but this does not protect him from people's disdain as they know where he came from.
The Circus
Director
event1968
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One of the traveling circus troupes in the Egyptian villages suffers from many problems due to the small number of spectators and its failure to keep up with the times. The son of the troupe owner, who has finished his studies, comes and tries to develop the troupe, canceling some shows and adding others. He faces opposition from the old members, but he succeeds with the help of all of them.
The Deprivation
Director
event1953
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directed by atef salem
The Naked Truth
Director
event1963 star_border 8
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Amal, a tour guide in Cairo, doesn’t want to get married after witnessing her mother’s divorce, and has decided that all men are no good. With high hopes, she goes to visit the Aswan High Dam where a tourism delegation is. In a chance encounter, she meets civil engineer Ahmed, who intervenes in time to save her life after a near freak accident. After this, Amal must decide what she will do with her life: whether she will return to Cairo and whether to continue graduate studies in America.
The Lost
Director
event1986 star_border 7
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In order to provide a home for her and her family, Zainab goes to work in an Arab country, and send her savings to her husband, she returns to discover that her husband divorced her and got married in her apartment. She collapses and decides to take revenge.
The Mamluks
Director
event1965
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After suffering Egyptians from the oppression of the Mamluks and despotism clump the people and organize popular resistance to eliminate them and get rid of the ruling Circassians and the commander of his bodyguards Aybak, joins Alhabiban Ahmad and Qamar resistance despite suffering colors they receive, designed Ahmed to avenge the death of his mother on their hands, achieved guerrilla dream he is condemned the country's young people from Egyptians are free.
شبان هذه الأيام
Director
event1975
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Hosni does not find a suitable time to spend at home to consider the affairs of his house, wife and children, as he is the editor-in-chief of one of the well-known magazines, writes about youth issues, but he finds himself immersed in work and in a relationship with his secretary, Suheir, without knowing that she is secretly married to his son Khaled, except That the October war erupts and Khalid invokes with others, the father discovers the extent of his mistake and his wife returns to the house while sending his son before his martyrdom a letter to his father recommending him to his wife Suheir.
A wife from Paris
Director
event1964 star_border 6
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Dr. Nagy works in the Paris oasis, but his friend, engineer Wajih, is rebelling against the woman after he is shocked by the betrayal of his wife. David, the school headmaster, searches for the appropriate wife and is chosen on one of the girls of the oasis. Wajih gets married to a new social supervisor who can personally remove the bad impact she left His wife betrayed him.
Legs In Mud
Director
event1976
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Fardous is in prison for stealing a watch. She shares a cell with Samia, who works in a show band and is wrongly arrested in a brothel and Mona who accidentally killed a child with her car. When Fardous comes out, she works in Asfour's poultry farm, but leaves it when he and his son compete to marry her.
Daa El-Omr Ya Walady
Director
event1978 star_border 6
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Fatima gets involved with the crook Abbas who lures her in with wealth before he gets arrested. Fatima meets Dr. Ahmed and he marries her despite her past, and she gives birth to Samir. When Abbas comes out of jail, he looks for Fatima, which turns her life into a nightmare.
The Seven Daughters
Director
event1961 star_border 7
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The story of an iron-willed man who looks after his seven daughters after the death of their mother, as his three older daughters, Ahlam, Wedad, and Salwa, fall in love and suffer the agonies of it, only for their dad to try to save them the heartache.
Qadam Al Kheir
Assistant Director
event1952 star_border 5.5
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Ihsan arrives from Lebanon to Cairo, and works with his friend Marzouk in a nightclub. Massoud Bey asks them to perform at his daughter's birthday party. Then he learns that his brother died and Mabrouka, his niece arrives from the countryside, and he tries to kill her because she's the sole heir to his brother.
Laila Min Omri
Director
event1954
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As a girl falls in love with an agricultural engineer, they sleep together and she gets pregnant. The Engineer must go to Europe for work but leaves behind a document admitting his paternity of the baby. As the girl gives birth, her father flees the country with her to avoid a scandal.
The Quiet Nest
Director
event1976
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Samia (school teacher) and Murad (movie writer) met in alexendria by accident . After they date for sometime ,they get married. their new life together came with consequences they have to deal with.
El-Arafa
Director
event1981
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The events of the film revolve around the university student (Samia Abu Al-Saad), who is arrested because of her political activities. During her imprisonment, (Samia) gets to know a police officer named (Magdy), who hides her in his house, and when the head of intelligence finds out what (Magdy) is doing with this girl He calls his father and warns him not to interfere in what does not concern him. She is transferred to the prison hospital, but she succeeds in escaping again.
Confused Woman
Writer
event1974
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A shepherdess falls in love with a wealthy young medical graduate. His mother disapproves of the relationship, so she devises a plan to keep her away from him. The plan succeeds, and the shepherdess is forced to marry an old rich man who loved her, but he dies shortly after the marriage, leaving her a fortune that a relative of his steals from her through trickery. On the train, she meets a cabaret pimp who takes her with her and they work in the cabaret.
The Back Stairs
Director
event1973
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The back staircase is used for the building owned by Omar, some residents. His son, Sami, a failed high school student, uses the stairs for his late return. A band uses a band to occupy one of the apartments, and they avoid meeting the doorman who demands a fee. The worker Nousa visits them through the back stairs, as she likes to dance and sing, then join the band.
No Understanding
Director
event1961 star_border 6
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Mr. Shehata is a family man who lives in Port Said with his tyrannical wife and their children. In a desperate attempt to get relief, he spends most of the time at a coffee shop. The two parents pay no heed to their children's choices in life. What will become of them?
Qaher Al Zalam
Director
event1979
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The film tells the story of the life of Ambed Arab literature Taha Hussein since his childhood in one of the villages of Minya, where he was able to overcome all difficulties despite being blind to leave his mark on literature, cultural scene and the educational system.
Treachery and torment
Assistant Director
event1947
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The father stands between his only daughter Fayda and the young man who is chasing her. This young man tried to seduce her by making her believe that he loves her. This young man continues to chase the girl while she turns away from him. He pursues her with phone calls, and when he feels that there is no point in trying to entice her, he reveals her mother’s history, behavior, and bad reputation.
El Masri Effendi
Co-Director
event1949
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Mohamed El Masry is an architect who desires money at any cost. The opportunity to get rich comes when his friend Ismail offers him to participate in a large housing project. El Masry is happy and works hard to achieve his hopes. The journey of wealth begins, which is quickly achieved, but it is accompanied by the disappearance of Hassan, Mohamed El Masry's son.
Love and madness
Assistant Director
event1948
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The film revolves around a young country man who loves singing and only sings at occasions in the countryside, but his uncle hates this hobby, so the young man travels to Cairo to find an opportunity to become a singer.
Hoda
Co-Director
event1949
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Hoda, a student, lives in Port Said with her widowed father, Fathy Al-Mahdawi, the owner of a supply and export company. Naima, an employee in the company, tricks Fathy until he falls in love with her and marries her. Hoda objects because of the difference in class. The stepmother treats her stepdaughter badly, which prompts her to travel to her aunt in Alexandria and join the university there, where she meets the sea captain Shukry, the brother of Samira, her colleague at the college.
A Dancer's Infatuation
Assistant Director
event1950
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A budding singer falls in love with his colleague in the dance troupe and they agree to get married. A famous dancer joins the troupe and falls in love with the singer, but he rejects her. The dancer decides to take revenge and create a quarrel between him and his lover.
Nehayet Qessa
Assistant Director
event1951
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The work deals with the story of a young writer who writes a story about a girl who loves her cousin and seeks to marry him, but her father opposes this marriage, so she marries another young man in a sham marriage, to please her father, and her relationship with her cousin continues, until the story turns into reality when the young man meets a girl who suffers from the same problem, so what will he do?
My Mother in Law is an Atomic Bomb
Assistant Director
event1951
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The film revolves around a happy couple, but the wife's mother works to spoil the relationship between the couple, and indeed succeeded in spoiling the relationship and was divorced despite the couple's love for each other, and also succeeded in marrying her daughter again from a wealthy person.
Come and Greet
Assistant Director
event1951
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An Egyptian romantic comedy film produced in 1951, the story and dialogue of Abu al-Saud al-Abiari and directed by Helmi Rafla and starring Farid al-Atrash, Samia Jamal, Ismail Yassin, Abdel Salam al-Nabulsi, Abdul Fattah al-Qasri and Farid Shawqi.
Girls Are Sweet
Assistant Director
event1951
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Abbas Abu al-Dahab calls his wife Karima after giving birth to three daughters because he dreams of the child who will inherit his work and manage it after him. He will marry another woman called Gamalat. When the father gets sick, the father finds all the help of his daughters.
According to Your Taste
Assistant Director
event1952
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On his wedding day,a young man finds himself accused of being the father of a child he knows nothings about. The child's grandfather asks him to marry his daughter, and the young man is trying to find a way to make his bride believe that he's innocent.
Habib qalbi
Assistant Director
event1952
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Samir and Fathi are friends. Samir is a famous musician and Fathi works as an employee in a humble job. Fathi meets Nahid, who has a beautiful voice and introduces her to his friend Samir in order to discover her. Samir admires her and decides to compose for her and marry her. However, he remembers her love for Fathi, so he retracts his decision and marries Fathi to Nahid. After a while, he imagines the existence of a relationship between Nahid and Samir, and doubts begin to take hold. On his thinking.
Child For rent
Assistant Director
event1953
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(Zaatar) works with (Mulabbasa) in the acting troupe managed by (Jawhar). When (Jawhar) learns about the story of (Nagati Pasha's) son who disappeared twenty years ago and has not been found, (Jawhar) offers (Zaatar) to impersonate the son, and Zaatar in turn enjoys a life of luxury with (Nagati Pasha's) family, but he soon learns that (Hiam's) fiancé, (Nagati Pasha's) daughter, is embezzling the Pasha's money, and Zaatar feels guilty over time about what he is doing to this family.
My Hippy Wife
Director
event1973
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A humble man encounters a group of hippies and develops feelings for one of them. As they get married, they cannot find a place to stay, and he resorts to a friend of his who abhors all hippies. Can their stay at his house alter his prespective?
Al Ragol Yohib Maratein
Director
event1987 star_border 6
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Sharif is a journalist and writer who is married to Amani and has a young child. His articles in the fight against political corruption led to his arrest for four years in which his young son drowned. He emerges from the prison, lamenting his wife, whose negligence resulted in the death of his only son. Thin letters in the prison without signature and loves and marries.
Aiza atgawiz
Assistant Director
event1952
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The events of the film revolve around the singer (Nour) and her great confusion between (Samir), who loves her with all his heart but does not propose marriage to her, and his rich uncle, who considers her his lover but does not decide to marry her either, but Nour’s life and her Upper Egypt customs and traditions force her to marry and not enter into marriage. In only romantic relationships without marriage, Nour meets a (lonely) singer and falls in love with him.
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